686: Chapter 684 Continuous Improvement

Upgrade successful!

Without hesitation, Chu Xuan immediately spent 3 rule fragments to allocate the 30 real attribute points he had just harvested into the three aspects of strength, agility, and spirit.

Although he had Cultivated martial arts Cultivation Techniques in this world, their core purpose was merely to satisfy the conditions for Rank enhancement.

When engaging in actual combat, he fundamentally still relied on pure physical fitness.

His combat style and all active or passive skills revolved around his own basic attributes, thereby pushing the lethal power of his skills to the extreme.

Among them, [ Fire of Nirvana ] served as the core.

The stronger his own basic lethal power was, the more additional damage Fire of Nirvana would inflict.

Following that were relatively strong combat-type exclusive skills such as [ Killing Instinct ], [ Hundred Weapons One Heart ], [ All-Cutting Slash ], and [ Death-Dealing Blade ].

To bring out the power of these skills, it was naturally necessary to greatly enhance strength and agility.

As for the enhancement of Mental Energy, it could increase basic resistance and reduce control and damage from the spiritual level by others.

Whether it was [ Forbidden Darkness ] or [ God-Solidifying ], both were based on Mental Energy.

Even capabilities like [ Tracing Cause and Effect ], [ Peeping Fate ], and [ Thought Thread ] also required powerful Mental Energy to maintain.

As for the stamina attribute, due to the existence of passive skills such as [ I Will Not Die ], [ Unyielding ], [ Regeneration ], and [ Hardened Body ], it could be temporarily set aside.

It would suffice to simply add points to it whenever there were surplus real attribute points later on, ensuring it wouldn't fall too far behind and affect his combat power.

Time slowly passed. As the pain sweeping through his entire body dissipated, Chu Xuan had finished adding points to all his attributes.

[ stamina: 120 (real attribute) ]

[ Strength: 140 (real attribute) ]

[ agility: 121 (real attribute) ]

[ spirit: 110 (real attribute) ]

At this moment, his spirituality value still had over 130,000 remaining, and there were still 56 rule fragments left, remaining very abundant.

However, wanting to advance to Rank 17 without increasing the Rank of [ Fire of Nirvana ] could only be achieved by elevating [ Sanyuan Qi-Guiding Art ] to the level of Perfection.

But whether it was upgrading [ Fire of Nirvana ] or increasing the progress of [ Sanyuan Qi-Guiding Art ], a massive amount of soul crystals was required.

Now with only 10 soul crystals remaining, it was naturally far from enough.

Chu Xuan thus gave up the intention of continuing to upgrade.

With a thought, Chu Xuan continued to check his personal panel, and his gaze finally landed on the transcendent skill [ Berserk ].

"Another 24 hours have passed, but Berserk, which has been raised to max level, should supposedly grant a real strength and real agility attribute increase once every day, yet it has been delayed and is nowhere to be seen..."

Chu Xuan's gaze turned gloomy.

Not long ago, after once again killing the Purifier's lingering will within his spiritual consciousness and focusing on enhancing his spirit attribute, whether it was upgrading skills or personal Rank, the harvested attribute points had no longer changed.

Chu Xuan had originally thought he could quiet down for a while.

Yet unexpectedly, the attribute points increase that should have been harvested from max-level [ Berserk ] was missing.

"Stolen again?"

Chu Xuan's gaze flashed, and he immediately moved his mind.

——System, consume my spirituality value and bring up all the rewards of max-level Berserk!

The instant he made this choice, Chu Xuan separated a wisp of consciousness and entered the spiritual space, instantly seeing the Phantom Demon drifting over within the boundless white space.

"My great Dominator, you..."

Slap!

With a single slap, Chu Xuan batted the Phantom Demon away. As his gaze shifted, he suddenly saw black dots continuously flickering in the depths of the boundless white.

Chu Xuan immediately leaped forward to give chase.

He saw that those black dots unexpectedly turned out to be in the shape of "Chu Xuan" condensed from the Fire of Nirvana, bearing a ninety percent resemblance. The difference was that this "Chu Xuan" had black patterns entwined all over his entire body.

Deep and dark as The Gloom, yet exuding a hint of weirdness.

"It's a bit different from before..." Murderous intent flashed in Chu Xuan's eyes, and a wisp of Fire of Nirvana similarly ignited in his hand, instantly transforming into a long saber.

Swish!

With a single slash!

Chu Xuan had originally thought this figure condensed from the lingering wills of successive Purifiers should be much stronger than before.

However, the intense battle he had imagined did not happen.

As the saber swept across, before it even touched the other party's body, that figure covered in black patterns abruptly dissipated entirely, turning into nothingness.

The moment it dissipated, Chu Xuan clearly saw the corners of the other party's mouth curve into a weird smile.

This smile was just like his own appearance that Chu Xuan saw through the river's reflection every time he woke up from a dream.

Inside the spiritual space, things instantly returned to normal.

"That lingering will clearly possesses extraordinary intelligence..." Chu Xuan's expression flickered uncertainly, increasingly feeling that the hidden danger of this [ Purifier ] was simply too tricky.

"In a previous dream, [ Future Tang Zheng ] once mentioned that in the future, although I would experience bumps, hardships, and dangers, I would ultimately survive and forge a path belonging solely to myself..."

"Then... how on earth did the future me resolve this hidden danger?"

"Or perhaps... just as [ Future Tang Zheng ] said, without paying any attention to it at all, as long as I upgrade at the fastest speed until I transcend?"

Chu Xuan felt that things would by no means be so simple.

At this moment, the Phantom Demon drifted over again: "My great Dominator..."

Slap!

With another slap sending the Phantom Demon flying, Chu Xuan couldn't be bothered to pay attention to it, and this wisp of consciousness returned.

In reality, when Chu Xuan slowly opened his eyes, the System finally sounded a prompt for adding points.

[ You have consumed 8,000 points of spirituality value and obtained 16 real attribute points. (Note: Only 8 points each can be added to strength and agility) ]

"As expected, the strength and agility attributes that should have been obtained previously were all stolen..."

Chu Xuan took a deep breath and temporarily suppressed his thoughts.

Afterward, he first increased agility to 129 points, and then consumed 1 rule fragment to raise strength to 148 points.

Meanwhile, Tang Zheng had also completely consumed the barbarian soul fruit gifted by Chu Xuan, his entire body turning crimson red while low roars constantly issued from his mouth.