531: Chapter 529 Spanning a Thousand Kilometers, Reaching Jinling City

Intense pain swept through his entire body.

Perhaps because his attributes had increased too much in a short period, Chu Xuan felt as if he had been thrown into a furnace to be tempered a thousand times over; every inch of his flesh felt as though it were being struck by an iron hammer.

However, Chu Xuan had no intention of stopping at all.

"If my Rank isn't high enough, I'll make up for it with stats..."

Chu Xuan's hair was already soaked with sweat. Even the slightest movement caused the pain to intensify, but he still took out the 370 soul crystals from his Exclusive Space.

Then, with trembling hands, he poured out the contents of the two Brocade Bags he had received from Xuan Xuan, from which twelve soul crystals and sixty-four glass spheres containing spirituality rolled out.

—Absorb spirituality!

With a single thought, the glass spheres began to crack and shatter.

While simultaneously increasing his Strength attribute and absorbing spirituality, Chu Xuan did not remain idle and checked his Exclusive Skills and Divine Abilities.

[Exclusive Skill: Fire of Nirvana: LV.7, Forbidden Darkness: LV.MAX, Eye of Insight: LV.MAX, Hundred Weapons One Heart: LV.MAX, All-Cutting Slash: LV.4, Death-Dealing Blade: LV.4, I Will Not Die: LV.1]

[Divine Ability: Tracing Cause and Effect (Major Achievement 15%)]

[Thunderous Might: Entry-level]

Whether upgrading Divine Abilities or Exclusive Skills, one could obtain the authority to exchange for a certain amount of real attribute points.

Based on his experience from just after his Rank advancement, for every level an Exclusive Skill was increased, he could obtain a quota of 1 real attribute point for exchange.

Progress in upgrading Divine Abilities, on the other hand, could yield a larger exchange quota.

Correspondingly, however, the number of soul crystals and spirituality value required to upgrade Divine Abilities would be higher and was not fixed, as it depended on one's own comprehension ability.

Whereas for upgrading Exclusive Skills, the resources required for each upgrade were fixed.

Before reaching level 5, the number of soul crystals required wasn't that high, totaling only 43 soul crystals.

Beyond that, the number of soul crystals required would skyrocket.

Just then, a System notification appeared.

[When you upgrade an Exclusive Skill to level 5 through manual improvement, your exchangeable real attribute point quota +10. For every subsequent upgrade, the exchangeable quota increases by 10.]

When he saw this notification, Chu Xuan was slightly stunned, but he immediately understood its meaning.

Simple put, when his All-Cutting Slash reached level 5, he could directly obtain an exchange quota of 10 real attribute points, and when it reached level 6, he could obtain a quota of 20.

"Does it have to be through manual improvement..."

Chu Xuan swept his gaze over the three Exclusive Skills: "Fire of Nirvana," "Eye of Insight," and "Forbidden Darkness," and he already understood where the improvements for these skills had come from.

Aside from those, the max-level [Hundred Weapons One Heart] had come from a direct System reward, so the exchangeable real attribute he had obtained back then were negligible.

A second later, another notification appeared.

[When you upgrade a Transcendent Skill to level 5 or above through manual improvement, your exchangeable real attribute point quota +5. For every subsequent upgrade, the exchangeable quota increases by 5.]

A strange light flashed in Chu Xuan's eyes.

Unlike Exclusive Skills, Transcendent Skills had to reach level 5 or above to obtain real attribute exchange quotas, and each time the quota would only increase by 5 points.

Chu Xuan checked his Transcendent Skills; among them, only [Myriad Forms], [Void Burst Step], and [Unyielding] could be upgraded to level 5 or above.

However, while upgrading Void Burst Step previously, Chu Xuan had already learned that Transcendent Skills could be upgraded directly using spirituality value before level 5, but after level 5, the required resources were the same as for Exclusive Skills.

spirituality value was still acceptable, but the required number of soul crystals was truly too many.

Therefore, under equal conditions, upgrading Exclusive Skills was still the priority!

With this thought, Chu Xuan had already made his decision.

The resources needed to upgrade Divine Abilities were not fixed, so he could set them aside for now.

Among the Exclusive Skills, [Fire of Nirvana] had already reached level 7. Upgrading it to the next level would require 640 skill points and 3,000 soul crystals.

To the current Chu Xuan, this was simply an astronomical figure, so he ignored it directly.

Furthermore, Chu Xuan still had some slight concerns regarding the source of this Fire of Nirvana; he would not actively upgrade it again before resolving them.

His current resources were limited and needed to be spent where they counted.

"Then, first..."

With a thought, Chu Xuan began to upgrade.

[You have consumed 10 skill points and 3 soul crystals. Your Exclusive Skill "I Will Not Die" has been upgraded to LV.2.]

[You have consumed 20 skill points and 10 soul crystals... upgraded to LV.3.]

[You have consumed 40 skill points and 30 soul crystals... upgraded to LV.4.]

[You have consumed 80 skill points and 100 soul crystals... upgraded to LV.5.]

Consuming a total of 1,500 spirituality value and 143 soul crystals, Chu Xuan upgraded [I Will Not Die] to level 5 in one go.

[I Will Not Die LV.5: When you receive fatal damage, you will lose spirituality value and retain 5 health points while being in a near-death state.]

Cooldown: 8 hours

Note: 1,000 spirituality value is required to trigger "I Will Not Die" in your current state. If your spirituality value is insufficient, this skill cannot be triggered.

"The retained health points have increased from the original 1 point to 5 points, which is negligible. However, the cooldown has been significantly reduced, shortening from 24 hours to 8 hours, and the spirituality value consumption has also decreased a lot..."

Chu Xuan was deeply satisfied.

At the same time, along with the upgrade of his Exclusive Skill, his exchangeable real attribute point quota had directly reached 13 points.

"The next step is to upgrade [Death-Dealing Blade] and [All-Cutting Slash] to level 5 as well!"

Chu Xuan's eyes flashed.

With 200 soul crystals and 1,600 spirituality value spent, these two Exclusive Skills were upgraded simultaneously.

[Death-Dealing Blade LV.5: When the target's health points are at or below 9%, every one of your strikes will become a certain-kill strike, ignoring defense and forcing a kill.]

[All-Cutting Slash LV.5: You can condense up to 100 slashes within your body by consuming spirituality value, which can be released separately against enemies.]

Each condensation requires 10-50 spirituality value; the more spirituality value consumed, the stronger the condensed Slash.

Cooldown: 1.5 seconds.

Note 1: You can instantly merge up to a hundred slashes within your body into one, significantly enhancing the Slash's power, and release it to kill enemies at any time.

Note 2: When each of your slashes is released, you can consume additional spirituality value to attach the Fire of Nirvana.

[Your exchangeable real attribute point quota +20. Current remaining: 33]

Chu Xuan's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

The increase in the mandatory kill percentage of [Death-Dealing Blade] was within Chu Xuan's expectations, but the upgrade of the [All-Cutting Slash] skill was completely unexpected.

Previously, Chu Xuan could also merge slashes, but it took time.

Now, however, he could instantly merge a hundred slashes and keep them stored within his body, ready to be used when needed against an enemy.

Since his Rank advancement, the power of All-Cutting Slash had been insufficient, and he could only deal chip damage by attaching the Fire of Nirvana.

But now, this skill had once again become a powerful combat method for Chu Xuan.

Aside from the fact that the required spirituality value was truly too much, there were no other drawbacks.

"Martial arts experts of the Cangyun World can convert spirituality into true essence and restore it through Cultivation Techniques. Why can't we Transcendents restore our spirituality?"

This thought suddenly occurred to Chu Xuan.

"Boss Chu, we've already arrived in Jinling, but the System has given several more locations, and they've scattered. Which one should we chase?"

Gaga Chicken's voice sounded.

More than two minutes had flashed by, and the white emperor fighter had already crossed over a thousand kilometers, traveling directly from the Capital to the skies above Jinling City.