179: Chapter 179 The Gold-Devouring Beast, the Nine-Turn Dragon Staff

"I'm doing this for your own good. With me around, the healers at the school will put their heart and soul into treating your sister."

Wei Shenchou explained, though he looked guilty no matter how you sliced it.

Tang Mo's gaze was like a torch, staring at Wei Shenchou until he felt uneasy.

Wei Shenchou finally couldn't take it anymore and made an excuse to slip away.

Watching him leave, Tang Mo became even more certain of his suspicions.

Wei Shenchou seemed to know the two siblings.

As for why he knew them, Tang Mo had no idea.

Just a moment ago, Tang Mo had even considered using Hallucinogenic Gas.

But in the end, he dismissed the thought.

After all, it was a tactic meant for enemies; using it on his own people felt wrong.

"Since you don't want to say, I'll find the answer myself."

Tang Mo tallied his gains this time, totaling 106 billion gold coins.

After recovering all the gold coins, Tang Mo instantly possessed 10.6 million skill points.

Afterward, Tang Mo took out the super divine artifact armor and the coiling dragon pagoda challenger badge he had obtained from the Coiling Dragon Pagoda.

【super divine artifact Xingtian Armor, all attributes +100000%, all damage +100000%, all skill grades +5 (Note: maximum skill grade is Epic), all skill levels +10, immune to all damage, and reflects all damage, wearing requirements: none】

【coiling dragon pagoda challenger badge, all attributes +100000%, all skill levels +10, can enter the Coiling Dragon Pagoda to challenge at any time via this badge, cooldown time: one month.】

Next was the sumeru realm artifact, the nine revolutions coiling dragon staff.

He saw that in the attribute information column of the nine revolutions coiling dragon staff, there was clearly an experience bar marked (0/100).

"So, does it need to devour 100 pieces of equipment to upgrade?"

Consequently, Tang Mo took out all the remaining saint artifact-grade equipment, of which 8 pieces remained.

Tang Mo decided to just let the nine revolutions coiling dragon staff devour all 8 of these saint artifacts.

As soon as the 8 saint artifacts drew near, the nine revolutions coiling dragon staff emitted a faint dragon roar, vaguely revealing a sense of excitement.

Afterward, the nine revolutions coiling dragon staff emitted a soft light that enveloped all 8 saint artifacts.

Then, he saw bursts of light spots overflowing from the 8 saint artifact-grade equipment.

The 8 saint artifact-grade equipment also lost their luster at a visible speed, becoming nothing more than scrap metal.

Hum~!

After emitting a joyful dragon roar, the nine revolutions coiling dragon staff returned to silence.

Tang Mo picked up the nine revolutions coiling dragon staff again to check, only to find that apart from its experience bar increasing by 8 points, its attributes hadn't changed at all.

Tang Mo couldn't help but be surprised.

"Good heavens, it actually takes 100 saint artifact-grade equipment to upgrade once? It's truly a gold-devouring beast!"

Afterward, Tang Mo took out another divine artifact, the Ziwei Bracers, and placed it next to the nine revolutions coiling dragon staff.

Another light dragon roar came, and countless light spots drifted out from the Ziwei Bracers.

After a while, the Ziwei Bracers also lost their divine artifact luster and turned into a pile of scrap metal.

At this moment, the experience points of the nine revolutions coiling dragon staff had increased by another 10 points.

Tang Mo said with a twinge of pain: "This thing eats too much!"

You have to realize that divine artifacts aren't that easy to come by, yet it only increased the experience points by 10.

"I wonder if supreme-grade equipment and diamond-grade equipment can be fed to it, and if they would increase experience."

If supreme-grade equipment and diamond-grade equipment could also provide experience for the nine revolutions coiling dragon staff, Tang Mo would be willing, even if the quantity requirement was higher.

After all, diamond-grade equipment and supreme-grade equipment are still relatively common.

"I'll know once I enter the abyss. For now, I should finish evolving and advancing my skills to prepare for the trip to the abyss."

The trip to the Bone Abyss was still vivid in his mind.

The strength of the Lord of the Bone Mound had left a very deep impression on Tang Mo.

Although with his current equipment, Tang Mo didn't think he would lose, it was always better to be safe.

Opening his skill bar and looking over it, it was densely packed with God-level Skills; the number was countless.

Due to the bonuses from his divine artifacts, super divine artifacts, and the nine revolutions coiling dragon staff, a large portion of the skills Tang Mo currently possessed were already maxed out.

However, relying solely on the 10.6 million skill points Tang Mo had, it was clearly not enough to finish evolving and advancing all these skills.

Evolving a God-level Skill once requires 50,000 skill points, and advancing it once requires 100,000 skill points.

And a God-level Skill can evolve five times and advance four times.

In other words, to evolve and advance a God-level Skill to the highest level requires 650,000 skill points.

The skill points Tang Mo had were enough to evolve and advance about 17 God-level Skills to the highest level.

Corrosive Poison Barrier and Corrosive Rain ranked at the top of these 17 skills.

There was no other reason; when facing enemies, especially those large-scale beast herds, the effectiveness of Corrosive Poison Barrier and Corrosive Rain was unparalleled.

Since Corrosive Poison Barrier and Corrosive Rain had already been evolved once when they were still normal-grade skills, they only needed to be evolved four more times.

Ultimately, after spending 1.2 million skill points, Corrosive Poison Barrier and Corrosive Rain reached their current maximum level, and the skills also underwent significant changes.

【Corrosive Poison Barrier · IV · Extreme: Creates a 100 square kilometer Poison Barrier area, dealing 16000% super-strong corrosive poison attribute damage to targets that enter, poison attribute can stack, (stacking speed = duration spent within the Poison Barrier area * 10, duration unit is seconds.)】

【Corrosive Rain · IV · Extreme: Deals 16000% continuous super-strong corrosive poison attribute damage to targets within a 100 square kilometer area, poison attribute can stack, (stacking speed = duration spent within the Poison Barrier area * 10, duration unit is seconds.)】

Since Corrosive Poison Barrier and Corrosive Rain were promoted to God-level Skills, they possessed the damage that God-level Skills should have, no longer limited to just stacking poison buffs on targets.

Next were the two skills, Source Poison and Soul Poison.

Source Poison had also already completed one evolution, therefore, Tang Mo only spent 1.25 million skill points to raise both God-level Skills to their current maximum level.

And both the Source Poison and Soul Poison skills received significant improvements.

First, after both killed a target creature, the poison attribute damage increase reached 25 points.

In other words, for every creature killed, Tang Mo's poison damage could increase by 50 points.

Although compared to Tang Mo's current spirit value, it was still pitifully small.

But Tang Mo believed that as long as he entered the abyss once, the increase in damage value would definitely not be underestimated.

Then there was the increase in stamina and spirit value from the two skills.

For every target creature killed, Source Poison would provide Tang Mo with 80 points of stamina, while Soul Poison would provide Tang Mo with an 80-point boost to spirit value.

This was definitely no small number.

You have to know that the divine artifacts, super divine artifacts, and sumeru realm artifact that Tang Mo currently possessed all increased attributes by percentages.

This meant that for every point Tang Mo's base attributes increased, his actual attributes would grow by an exaggerated value of hundreds of thousands of times.