151: Wandering Taoist (4/4)

While the players were still reacting, the second world announcement continued to pop up.

World announcements were frantically refreshing.

[Beep!]

[Blue Star Announcement: Detected a player has reached Level 40. The First Martial Arts Tournament Under Heaven will be held. Players are encouraged to sign up.]

[Blue Star Announcement: Detected a player has reached Level 40. The First Martial Arts Tournament Under Heaven will be held. Players are encouraged to sign up.]

Two consecutive world announcements.

Thus, the online players were in an uproar.

“Hand God!!”

“Haha! It’s our world announcement again!”

“FUCK! Just one step away! If the Hand of God hadn't died once, Endless Corpse Hand wouldn't be the first to reach Level 40.”

“Oh~ my~ god—who was that cursed person? Who killed the Hand of God?”

“Shit! It’s a player with the ID “Han Yu”.”

“xi ba! Han Yu? I know him!”

“He’s a liar, he tricked me out of a Mythical skill book!”

“FUCK Han Yu!!”

“……”

Calamity Plain.

Endless Corpse Hand actually reached Level 40.

Li Si was slightly surprised, then full of anticipation, he clicked on the world announcement to sign up for the Martial Arts Tournament.

[Beep!]

[The Luanxing City selection will be held tomorrow morning at 8 AM.]

[The selection is divided into preliminary and arena rounds.]

[The preliminary round is a battle royale mode, where all players survive in the same map, and the top 10,000 players are selected to participate in the arena round.]

Tomorrow morning at 8 AM?

Li Si calculated the time, no problem, he could complete the third advancement of the Calamity Knight. As for the second advancement of the Deceptive Arcanist, that would depend on the quest content.

If he didn't waste time, he could complete it quickly too.

Time flowed on.

Three hours later, with no major scares, he successfully completed the quest.

[Beep!]

[Detected completion of quest—Clear Calamity Plain (Third Advancement).]

[Congratulations on completing your third class advancement. Calamity Knight has unlocked more skills.]

10,000 units of Calamity Source surged into his body.

Li Si felt his physique become even more solid.

Then, he opened his class panel to view Calamity Knight.

[Calamity Knight] (Third Advancement)

Quality: Mythical

First Advancement Skills: [Calamity Demonic Body max (Mythical)] [Calamity Arrival max (Mythical)]

Second Advancement Skills: [Calamity Demonic Body · Blood Surge max (Mythical)] [Calamity Arrival · True max (Mythical)]

Third Advancement Skills: [Calamity Demonic Body · Blood Coagulation max (Mythical)] [Calamity Arrival Superposition max (Mythical)]

Description: A peerless legacy containing terrifying calamity power. Players will automatically complete the fourth advancement and unlock more class skills upon reaching Level 80.

As expected, two class skills were unlocked.

Both skills seemed to be passive.

One strengthens attributes, one strengthens damage.

Li Si clicked on the first class skill.

[Calamity Demonic Body · Blood Coagulation max]

Quality: Mythical

Passive: Defense Cap +60%, Damage Reduction +5%.

Description: Your blood qi solidifies, as hard as bedrock, allowing you to resist some damage.

A decent Mythical passive.

Among them, the 5% damage reduction was a highlight.

Li Si checked his attribute changes.

Defense Bonus: 142%.

Armor Cap: 523 (Physical damage taken reduced by 83.94%)

Magic Resistance Cap: 496 (Physical damage taken reduced by 83.22%)

Damage Reduction: 30%.

“Astoundingly tanky.”

Immediately, he continued to click on the second class skill.

[Calamity Arrival Superposition max]

Quality: Mythical

Passive: The abnormal damage of Calamity Arrival can stack, up to 10,000 layers. In addition, the duration of abnormal damage is extended to 100 seconds.

Description: With 10,000 units of Calamity Source coursing through your body, it is only natural for Calamity to stack 10,000 layers.

“....NB.”

Li Si was shocked by the attributes of Calamity Arrival Superposition.

Stacks 10,000 layers, extended to 100 seconds.

This one skill directly revitalized the Calamity Knight class.

From then on, Calamity Arrival transformed, becoming one of his main outputs.

Li Si checked his attack.

2870 points.

Calamity Arrival's damage is 50% of attack power.

Which is 1435 points.

Ten thousand layers is 14.35 million points!

Six types of abnormal stacks would be 86.1 million points.

86.1 million true damage per second!

How exaggerated this was, the drawback was that it required stacking.

This was not difficult for Li Si; with Great Replication Technique activated, four-fold Phantom Sword Dance could stack over 1200 layers.

Phantom Sword Dance only had a 5-second cooldown, so stacking 10,000 layers would only take 40 seconds.

“Too overpowered!”

Li Si sighed endlessly, the more he calculated, the more he felt Calamity Knight was overpowered.

Of course, this was limited to him.

For other players, it would actually be quite ordinary. Not only was it slow, but it also lacked AoE and couldn't stack layers quickly.

“Whoosh—”

Space vibrated, and Li Si left the Calamity Plain, returning to Tianzi Number One.

At this time, Wind-Treading Tiger was already Level 45.

Further leveling up became much more difficult. The time it took to go from Level 44 to Level 45 was more than the time it took from Level 40 to Level 44.

“Whew!”

A gentle breeze caressed him.

Alisa floated over and said, “Prince, the teleportation array within Everlasting City has been completed and will soon connect to Luanxing City and all teleportation arrays within its territory. Should access be opened to other players?”

“Open it, but remember to charge a fee,” Li Si said.

“How many gold coins should we charge?”

“100 gold coins.”

“Is 100 gold coins for one ride, or to unlock permanent access?” Alisa inquired.

“100 gold coins for one ride. Take it or leave it.”

Li Si did not indulge other players; he established the guild only for the attributes, and the guild's development would take its natural course.

If it succeeds, good.

If not, then so be it.

He firmly believed in his own strength; guilds and pets were merely auxiliary tools for him.

“Pop—”

The second class advancement scroll shattered in the air.

[Beep!]

[Congratulations on receiving the quest—The Beginning of Deception (Second Advancement).]

[The life of a Deceptive Arcanist is full of deceit and trickery. So begin your path of deception. Within three days, deceive 100 players into buying your fake and shoddy products. Your class—Deceptive Arcanist—will automatically advance to its second stage.]

“……”

Li Si was silently astonished.

He had never encountered such a quest before; the system was guiding players to scam others?

It was simply unheard of.

“Perhaps… I should take a trip to the Goryeo War Zone?”

Thinking this, Li Si activated Trick the heavens and cross the sea on himself.

“Whoosh—”

Mottled light flowed, and his attribute information changed completely—

[Wandering Taoist] (Legendary Monarch)

Level: 99

Attributes: ????

Talents: ????

Skills: ????

Description: A Taoist wandering through various War Zones, possessing endless treasures. Meeting the Wandering Taoist is your destiny; you had best give your all to purchase the Wandering Taoist's rare collections.

“This old Taoist is off.”

Li Si waved his wide Taoist robe and cast Great Teleportation Technique.

The next second, his figure appeared within Busan City.