19: upgrade! Invincible skills and golden body!
“Bang—”
Lu Yu could clearly sense that the shadowy figure was merely a small E-rank ferocious beast. A spiritual energy Feather Blade directly sent it flying.
The shadowy figure revealed itself to be a calf.
Goodness, it truly was a newborn calf unafraid of a tiger.
This tiny calf, barely E-rank, actually ignored the pressure emanating from him, a dignified D-rank, and charged out as if it had lost its mind.
For such an easy delivery, Lu Yu naturally wouldn't let it go. He spread his wings and flew over, easily killing it and then devouring it using his panel.
[Congratulations on gaining 40 Evolution Points! Current Evolution Points remaining: 458!]
Nice!
Lu Yu looked at the increasing Evolution Points, his heart filled with joy, but then his mood grew solemn.
The spiritual energy emanating from this spirit fruit covered a radius of ten thousand meters, and surrounding ferocious beasts could all sense this rich spiritual energy.
Even E-rank ferocious beasts could ignore the D-rank pressure and launch an attack. It was easy to imagine that this place would soon become a battlefield for a chaotic beast fight!
Obtaining the spirit fruit would likely not be a simple matter.
As Lu Yu pondered, a terrifying aura surged towards them.
Little White Fox, sensing this aura, immediately ran and hid behind Lu Yu.
Lu Yu narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction from which the aura came.
He saw a giant wild boar charging over. This wild boar was enormous, nearly seven meters long, with bulging, powerful muscles. Its two tusks, over two meters long, gleamed like sharp blades, reflecting a cold light.
This wild boar clearly exuded the aura of a D-rank ferocious beast.
It was a formidable opponent!
Although in Lu Yu's memory, this wild boar didn't exist, to be able to raise its realm to D-rank at this time meant it was either exceptionally gifted or had obtained an astonishing fortuitous encounter. It absolutely could not be underestimated.
Lu Yu's aura was very well hidden, so the wild boar hadn't detected another D-rank ferocious beast here before its arrival. Now, face to face, it felt a fatal threat from Lu Yu.
“Roar!”
The wild boar let out a low growl at Lu Yu, watching him warily. At the same time, when its gaze swept over the spirit fruit, a wave of fanaticism flashed in its eyes.
Clearly, even a D-rank ferocious beast couldn't resist the temptation of a third-grade spirit fruit!
Lu Yu's expression was grave. If it were just one wild boar, it wouldn't pose much of a threat to him. However, after seeing the wild boar, Lu Yu became cautious. He released his Wind Spiritual Power to probe the surroundings and made a significant discovery.
In the dense forest not far away, a D-rank power was hidden, unreleased. If Lu Yu hadn't possessed the talent for controlling Wind Spiritual Power, he wouldn't have been able to detect its presence.
A single third-grade spirit fruit had attracted the covetous gaze of three D-rank ferocious beasts!
The giant wild boar, wary of Lu Yu's strength, dared not make any move. At the same time, the spirit fruit hadn't fully matured yet, so it wasn't time for a struggle. Therefore, it stood still and did not advance.
Although Lu Yu wasn't afraid of this wild boar, the aura hidden in the shadows was clearly even stronger than this wild boar's. So, Lu Yu didn't act rashly for a while.
The scene eerily fell silent.
Seizing this opportunity, Lu Yu opened his panel.
Facing two opponents of the same rank, Lu Yu felt that his current strength was still a bit precarious.
Although his current Evolution Points were less than 1000, making it impossible to advance to a higher rank and achieve a rank suppression, he could still improve his strength by upgrading his skills!
[Skills]: Claw Assault (lv2), Frost Impact (lv2), Steel Body (lv2), Feather Blade (lv2)
Currently, Lu Yu had a total of four skills, all at lv2. Upgrading them to lv3 each required 100 Evolution Points. His current Evolution Points were enough for Lu Yu to upgrade all four skills!
Without hesitation, Lu Yu chose to upgrade all of them.
This was not the time to be stingy with Evolution Points.
As long as he possessed strength, not only would this spirit fruit belong to Lu Yu, but these two D-rank ferocious beasts would also be within Lu Yu's grasp!
As 400 Evolution Points disappeared, all 4 skills were upgraded:
Blade Assault (lv3): Transform oneself into a sharp blade, instantly teleport to the target (current maximum teleportation distance is 100 meters), launch 5 consecutive attacks, each attack dealing 200% damage and triggering a bleeding effect!
Ice Thorn (lv3): Emit spiritual energy condensed Ice Thorns forward, dealing damage to enemies within a frontal fan-shaped area (the more spiritual power consumed, the greater the number and attack power of Ice Thorns, up to 300% damage), and simultaneously inflicting a freezing effect on hit enemies!
Steel Body (lv3): Activate skill, consume 20% of all spiritual power, ignore all attacks for one second!
Chidori (lv3): Consume spiritual power, transform into an varying number of clones, each clone possessing up to 50% of the main body's strength, with a maximum of 10 clones simultaneously attacking!
...Lu Yu looked at the skill descriptions after upgrading and immediately widened his eyes.
These four skills, after upgrading, had actually become so powerful!
It was a complete transformation!
Claw Assault became Blade Assault. The acceleration sprint directly turned into teleportation, and the original three attacks became five, with each dealing 200% damage. Who could withstand that? Not to mention the absolute bleeding status it could apply!
It was ridiculously strong!
And the skill that transformed into Ice Thorn was even more exaggerated. Not only was it an area-of-effect skill, but it could also deal up to 300% damage and absolutely freeze enemies!
A powerful crowd control skill with extremely high damage—this was simply a divine skill!
Feather Blade became Chidori. The Feather Blade attack transformed into creating clones. Although they could only possess a maximum of 50% of the main body's strength, there was no resisting the sheer number!
Ten of them attacking simultaneously—this was simply insane!
However, what Lu Yu least expected was that the biggest surprise came from the previously most inconspicuous skill!
Steel Body was originally a skill that increased defense. Although its effect was good, Lu Yu generally didn't need close-quarters combat, so it was a bit useless to him.
He never expected that after upgrading, this skill would actually become Steel Body!
An invincible skill!
Although it only lasted for one second, a skill that made him immune to all attacks was simply the divine skill among divine skills.
It could save his life at crucial moments!
Lu Yu was extremely excited.
Closing the panel, Lu Yu completely relaxed. If he had been a little worried before when facing two opponents of the same rank, now he could only say, what rank are they? How dare they be on the same rank as him?
He looked up and saw Little White Fox hiding behind him, trembling, clearly terrified.
This made Lu Yu find it a little amusing. Before, this Little White Fox was not only unafraid of him, a D-rank, but also dared to shift blame, use others to kill, and even use illusion arts on him. Yet now, seeing these two D-ranks, she had chickened out. It really made no sense.
Lu Yu patted Little White Fox to comfort her. Feeling Lu Yu's protection, Little White Fox's trembling body stabilized, and she rubbed against Lu Yu, gaining a sense of security.
Lu Yu looked at the spirit fruit, but he didn't plan to act now.
Anyway, the spirit fruit hadn't matured yet, and he didn't mind waiting a bit.
In Lu Yu's perception, many ferocious beasts were rushing up the mountain, but they seemed to be deterred by the aura of the three D-rank ferocious beasts and dared not ascend.
“It’s getting livelier and livelier!”