Chapter 53 - 51: Reverse Jinx

Based on the principle of absolutely no waste.Hang Yu used the Collection Skill on the Tree Spirit Guard Captain.

He wasn’t in a hurry to open the Treasure Chest right away but walked to the spring beside it first.

This was a very special spring, extremely clear, emitting a faint glow, able to illuminate the surroundings at night.

Hang Yu took a big gulp of the spring water, feeling refreshed and cool instantly filling his body. If he hadn’t experienced it himself, he wouldn’t have believed there could be such delicious water in the world.

Unlike chilled soda, which pales in comparison.

The appeal of the spring water lies not only in its taste but also on a spiritual level.

It can alleviate anxiety and agitation, can dispel fatigue and restore stamina. Staying up late and drinking a mouthful will ensure your refreshed state lasts till dawn; it’s quite magical indeed.

This isn’t ordinary spring water, but a Spiritual Spring of the forest!

The spring water have some recovery effects, primarily to eliminate fatigue and restore stamina. It also provides life and Spiritual recovery, though weak and slow, unable to replace potions.

However, the Spiritual Spring is excellent material for potion making!

Potions crafted from Spiritual Spring water are surely of higher quality than those made with ordinary water.

Moreover, the Spiritual Spring contains Spiritual Energy, which helps in watering Spirit Plants to promote growth, proving quite useful.

After drinking several sips from the Spiritual Spring, Hang Yu began to employ the Collection Skill on the spring.

Collection failed! Collection failed! Collection failed... After more than ten uses of the Collection Skill, all resulted in failure. It’s known that Hang Yu had mastered the Collection Skill initially!

Hang Yu was not discouraged. He munched on two blue berries in succession, rested for two minutes to regain Spiritual Power, adjusted his position, and continued collecting.

Failed! Failed! Failed!

Failed once again!

Yet another failure!

"Damn it, I don’t buy it!"

After nibbling on the berries and resting again, changing his position, he continued to collect repeatedly.

After dozens of fails during repetitive attempts.

Suddenly, a ray of light shot out from the Spiritual Spring, transforming into a gleaming jade stone that was collected and landed in Hang Yu’s hand.

"Forest Spiritual Spring Gem", White Upper Grade Quality, Spiritual Spring Energy 30 (Consuming three White Crystal Stones to bring it to the present world).

He’s got it!

What Hang Yu wanted was this Spiritual Spring Gem.

Once the gem is placed in water for a period, ordinary water will transform into Spiritual Spring.

As long as the energy within the Spiritual Spring Gem is not depleted, it will continue to produce Spiritual Spring endlessly.

When Hang Yu returns to the real world, he will have an abundant supply of Spiritual Spring.

Each Spiritual Spring can only produce one Spiritual Spring Gem per collection.

The refresh rate of the Spiritual Spring Gem is very slow, taking at least half a month next time, by which Hang Yu will certainly already be gone.

Hang Yu promptly cleaned his hands and face using the Spiritual Spring, and after preparing thoroughly, he advanced to the Treasure Chest, placing both hands on its lid, muttering to himself.

"Open worthless junk, open worthless junk, open worthless junk..."

Then he opened the Treasure Chest.

Numerous light spheres emerged.

It opened three items, all White, with one being Light White.

Hang Yu glanced quickly, revealing two pieces of Equipment and a Skill Stone, and couldn’t help but rejoice.

"Haha, backfire strategy worked, actually found a Skill Stone!"

He’s the kind of person who’s one hundred percent immune to winning in lotteries, never getting lucky regardless of the odds since childhood.

It’s not easy to find Skill Stones in Treasure Chests, but this time he uncovered one, an incredible feat, a reversal of fate!

[Magic Professional Skill Stone: Air Arrow], White Upper Grade Quality, Meteorology Apprentice Legacy Fragment, Learning Condition: None! (Consuming five White Crystal Stones to bring it to the present world.)

Hang Yu felt a little disappointed.

It turned out to be a Magic Professional Skill Stone, and quite a weak skill like Air Arrow.

Air Arrow is a low-level spell with a short cooldown, mediocre damage, and limited range.

The skill is quite weak, its sole advantage being the extremely short cooldown. Additionally, the nearly transparent trajectory of Air Arrow makes it hard to detect, useful for surprising opponents.

The problem is that Air Arrow is a purely Magic Series occupational damage skill.

Its effect is directly proportional to Intelligence and Magic Attack.

The only Magic Professional weapon Hang Yu has is the Magic Staff in his Storage Space, and that was already reserved for Su Yunbing. He has no equipment that increases Magic Attack or boosts Intelligence.

Although Hang Yu can learn it, considering his situation, such a skill would not necessarily outmatch bows or crossbows.

Moreover, the Meteorology Apprentice legacy sequence is fairly ordinary.

It lacks the value of collecting skill fragments.

While Air Arrow can be enticing to Magic and Spiritual Professionals.

For Hang Yu, it’s optional, not particularly intriguing to learn yet hard to abandon.

Of course, this is still a White Skill Stone, much more valuable than a low-level Production Skill Stone; even if not utilized, he can exchange it for plenty of other stuff upon taking it back.

Hang Yu examined the Equipment.

Upon seeing the first piece of Equipment, he was again bewildered.

It’s actually a Chest Armor, and specifically a Tree Spirit Guard Chest Armor!

Yet Hang Yu already owns one, and it’s a Top-Grade piece with an extra five life points, while this one is merely an ordinary Tree Spirit Guard Chest Armor, rendering it unusable for him.

"Doesn’t seem like backfire strategy worked!"

"I truly uncovered a bunch of worthless items!"

However, upon reconsideration, owning this Chest Armor might just complete another Tree Spirit Guard Set, wouldn’t it?

Even if he can’t use it himself, he can sell it!

Is the value of selling single pieces equal to selling an entire set?

This Chest Armor still holds value!

Hang Yu doesn’t dare claim the Tree Spirit Guard Set as the best equipment currently, but merely based on these three White Equipment Attributes and set effects, by current valuation, trading for a high-end villa in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen shouldn’t be too taxing!

The final piece.

This time, it’s a necklace.

"Wood Heart Necklace", Level 3 Equipment, White Middle Grade Quality, Agility +1, Spiritual Sense +1, Divine +1, Durability 15 (requiring the consumption of six White Crystal Stones to bring it to the present world)

A good item!

Finally found a piece of usable good stuff!

The Agility Attribute enhances responsiveness and flexibility, useful to anyone, while granting additional talents to a Warrior’s agility.

The Spiritual Sense Attribute is a talent-boosting attribute for Spiritual Professionals. This attribute mainly amplifies the effect of enhancing sensory and perception abilities and boosts many skills for Spiritual Professionals while being of significant importance to other Talented as well.

As for the Divine Attribute, it’s rather special.

The Divine Attribute can slightly augment resistance to negative states while largely enhancing the effects of healing-like look-alike skills; it’s a talent enhancement attribute for Holy Professionals, comparatively rarer than attributes, and isn’t particularly useful to Hang Yu.

Hang Yu donned the Wood Heart Necklace.

An energy released from the necklace enveloped his body, allowing Hang Yu to distinctly perceive an increase in responsiveness and flexibility.

Simultaneously, Hang Yu experienced greater visual clarity and increased ability to distinguish sounds after wearing the necklace.

This is an effect brought about by the necklace’s addition of 1 point to the Spiritual Sense Attribute.

Hang Yu’s inventory is now quite comprehensive.

His weapons are Forest Long Saber (Light White) and Blackwood Crossbow (Bright Grey).

His armor includes Forest Leather Armor (Dark White), goblin pants (Dark White), goblin boots (Bright Grey), and Thief’s Mask (Light Grey).

In the category of jewelry are Black Wood Ring (Bright Grey) and Wood Heart Necklace (Light White).

Furthermore, in Hang Yu’s Storage Space, there is an array of incompatible equipment and even Skill Stones. At the current stage, possessing such a setup and Spirit Realm assets, among a metropolis like Jiang City, it’s unlikely to find anyone matching him among the ten million residents.

Additionally to these three items, there are six White Crystal Stones in the Treasure Chest.

After retrieving everything, Hang Yu took another lap around the mountain valley.

While there are no Tree Spirit Guards left, quite a number of stray Cannibal Flower Demons remain.

Cannibal Flower Demons, as Level 3 monsters, contain substantial Spiritual Qi, most importantly, being easy to kill, presenting little risk.

After eliminating some stray Cannibal Flower Demons.

Hang Yu felt the exploration of the small valley to be complete in merit.

Hang Yu departed the valley, utilizing the goblin scroll’s final summoning opportunity, once more summoning a Goblin Warrior to distract the Green-haired Monkey Monsters at the valley entrance, allowing him to approach the stele.

Uncertain about when he might return again after this departure.

Hang Yu spent ten White Crystals to replenish various useful seeds before leaving.

This forest spans a vast area and likely contains a few remaining Tree Spirit Guards, but by now it’s getting late, and Green-haired goblins lurk everywhere nearby, making activity here intrinsically risky.

Hang Yu is now laden with treasures.

His Spiritual Qi has amassed over two hundred points.

Carelessly being eliminated would result in considerable losses.

Knowing when to stop is prudent; Hang Yu decided against further adventure and chose to return to camp.

Currently, possessing numerous purposeless yet excellent items requires selling, exchanging to convert them into valuables and money, maximizing their value.

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